Dec. 16, 2008 - My gingerbread house

We were finally able to get to the store today and get more powdered sugar to make a final batch of frosting so I could finish my gingerbread house.  And since the weather is bad, we cancelled scouts tonight, so I had time to finish it up tonight.  Here are pictures of mine:

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Dec. 16, 2008 - On the eleventh day of Christmas...

... my true love gave to me, 11 pipers piping.

The eleven stands for the 11 faithful disciples of Jesus.  We made trading cards for each disciple to put in a folder book.

Then we read this book:

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Dec. 15, 2008 - On the tenth day of Christmas...

...my true love gave to me, 10 lords a leaping.

You guessed it, the tenth day stands for the 10 commandments.  After talking a little about what each one means, they made this tablet with the commandments on it.

Then we read this book about the real Saint Nicholas.

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Dec. 13, 2008 - On the ninth day of Christmas...

... my true love gave to me, nine ladies dancing.

In Galatians, Paul talks about the Fruit of the Spirit - of which there are 9 - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self-control.  They boys are very familiar with these because they spent several months talking about it at the kid's program during our midweek services at church.  They still remember the song.  Nicolas and Alex each did a different kind of book with this day.  Nicolas did a simple accordion book, while Alex's is a little more intense.  Alex's book is a lift the flap book.  He is writing something about each fruit - he's not quite finished with it.

We read this book:

Very good book - many lessons to be learned from it.  Ours came with a CD, but we have not listened to it yet.  I have also seen that there is a movie out based on this book.  We may have to get our hands on it sometime.

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Dec. 13, 2008 - Gingerbread houses

Well, yesterday the teacher wasn't feeling well. so we did nothing.  Tonight we were able to finish the boys' gingerbread houses.  Mine is still unfinished because we ran out of icing and no more powdered sugar to make more - so mine will have to wait until next week.  Here are pictures of the boys as they are finishing theirs.

We helped with the icing, but they pretty much had free reign of what they put on.  You will be able to tell :)

Here is Alex's finished product.

The back:

The front:

The side:

Here's Nicolas's house.

The front:

The back:

The side:

The pretzel rod on the top is a telescope.  There are several snowmen lining (guarding?) the house.

And the proud builders:

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